I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty.

I think the most powerful thing a woman can have is confidence.

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

There is a deep desire to change the power structure.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.